The great comic book bubble of 1992. Comics were hot, and every publisher was coming out with alternate covers, foil covers, holograms, "limited edition" collector's covers, etc. The most extreme example might have been the 13 alternate covers for the #1 issue of Gen13 published by Image. I paid way too much to get a sealed box of all 13 covers, which fortunately I sold on eBay and recouped my money. It was a crazy time. Everybody would buy 2-3-4 copies of comics...one to read, others to immediately slip into poly bags with backing boards to save later. Of course none of those comics are worth anything now because there are six million of them filling comic book store back rooms now. Only useful maybe as fireplace kindling. After moving long boxes full of comics over and over, I ended up donating the bulk of my collection to a library.
i was collecting during this time and the part you left out is that comics were pretty cheap, like $1.50 a copy, collecting them was part of the fun. no one was really doing it as a big investment scheme, we were this thing called “fans” - back in a time when everything wasn’t a “hustle”, we collected because we loves the stories
I remember this and it was total bull. All those people buying a comic thinking it would be worth something. Less copies of a comic there are, the more expensive it is.
In 1995 or so my local store had Vampirella actress Sascha Knopf autographing comics. A married coworker and fellow comic book geek reluctantly agreed to go with me to the event. She was absolutely pouring out of that outfit. I asked for a photo and she was super sweet about it. Have an awesome pic with my arms wrapped around her. Best moment of my life. Getting married or having children were lame compared to that.
I remember this was a big deal for some reason. On the cover of magazines. Most people didn't care about comic books otherwise. A lot of comic book stores still look just like this today although many of them now have more manga and figurines.
Can’t even tell what was said. The least restrictive vocally are the most hopeless. The collective knows that. Especially in this venue. Jezus. But it’s cool to see an attractive girl slinging comic books. Does wonders for the culture lol
Every store owner who sells you something laughs all the way to the bank, haha!! Do you buy food and gas? pay bills? Buy clothing?You're being laughed at while someone gets rich.
Love this footage so awesome!! I was nearly 12 when this came out back in 1992 and wasn't into comics yet. This has always been my dream book and now I own about 20 copies including all 4 prints direct edition CGC 9.6. My all time favorite Superman book and run to own. Death of Superman best set by far the art is so amazing. Dan Jurgens Rules!!
I don't really shop at comic book stores as much as I used to when I was a kid. Last time I was in a comic book store was about 4 years ago. We have 3 comic book stores here in my neck of the woods, and they never seem to be busy on most days. Only during Free Comic Book Day in May is when they usually see the most traffic. I don't usually go to that event unless it's really necessary. Only thing people do in comic book shops is have local Magic the Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, or Pokémon card game meetups. Nothing really comic book related these days.
Sounds about right, sadly. Thankfully I scored a Batman compilation Dark Knight Dark City, which all would've come out the same time as everything in that video. Other than that, there's the card game tables... I discovered that comic book shop through old fake friends who laughed me out of a Magic Gathering game when I lost, but I gained one thing out of it -- good comics to look at.
1992 was when batman the animated series launched in the airwaves . Ran from 9 5 1992 -9 15 1995 85 episodes. . My favorite episodes are night of the ninja 10 26 1992 . If your so smart why aren't you rich 11 18 1992 riddler episode. And day of the samurai 2 23 1993.
Looked like a good business. I wonder though, some years later as people had their hands a little on the web, did somebody occur to them they could just scan the comics and then just host them in their site lol.. I wonder what the reaction would had been for all those people. It wasn't very long until they could start doing that, even if it was slow over the modems.
There was a a comic book store in my area called Oakleaf. I would go there and I would buy Ren & Stimpy and The Simpsons comic books lol! They also had a lot of T-shirts and trading cards. And of course action figures.
Back then you could still buy comic books at almost every convenience store in America, and that's where kids got a lot of them. Adults went to comic book shops because they tended to be in better condition than the ones in convenience stores, and better for collecting because of it.
I bought most of my comics as a kid in the 90's from the 7/11 down the street and the grocery store. Most kids did to, but I would often ask my dad to take me to the comic book store on the weekend.
Luckily I had the insight to preorder a TON of the Superman bagged books THREE months before release (Previews) thanks to my LCS. I kept 5 and flipped the rest for $75 at a local comic show the week they got shipped =) (Don't blame me, the dealer at the show offered me 75 a book)
I remember the craze of that. By the end of the 90s first prints went for about 3 bucks and 2-4th about 2.00. The sealed copy about 6 if you where lucky
Sometimes after a hard day I like to come to comic book vids like this one and look at the people like animals in a zoo. Not in a bad way but in but in a skeptical escapism way
When i was growing up in Indianapolis i used to read DC comics all the time,but now this days i read classic magazines and newspapers.such as The Indianapolis Star classic newspapers not like today's Indy Star,it's completely nothing like classic Indianapolis Star.
I recall about 5 years ago I got spider man 2 dvd deluxe edition. Sealed 8 bucks came with collectble concept art cards and a comic book peter parker gives up being spider man
I grew up with these! I was in my senior year of high school when this was filmed. I graduated in 93’. Today when you see a “comic book store” you immediately think of drug dealers and porn inside it, as hardly anyone today truly reads physical comic books anymore. Man I wish we could turn back time in the flip of a switch!
🤨 Pardon my French but, the fuck kind of "comic book stores" have you gone to that sell drugs or porn? I've never seen nor heard of anything like that happening before.
I dated a girl for a year who worked at Game Stop. She told me that every single guy who went in the store instantly fell in love with her because she played video games. Every 10 minutes. I could imagine that this poor girl had to go through the same rough process working at a comic book store lol 😆
1992 super man video game released on sega Genesis. By sun soft.same year sun soft released batman revege of the joker genesis. And batman returns released on Sega genesis NES
These people lined up and paid money to buy those comics believing it'll go up in value sometime in the future. Little did they know, that comic in 2024 is almost WORTHLESS. Had they simply bought shares of Coca Cola, or IBM, they would have done A LOT BETTER.
